None had expected the infantry's assault, or knew their objective when they set the town ablaze. Marlene was unaware she held within her the king's blood, that she was the proof of his condemnable affair, as she as the other Unrecorded ran from the spreading flames. But when she learned her father's name from her captors, she knew as well for the first time the pain of misfortune.

Marlene is a German, English, Danish and Polish feminine name borrowed from German in early 20th century. Blend of the names Maria (Latin) "star of the sea" and Magdalene (Hebrew migdal "tower") "from Magdala", it refers, therefore, to Mary Magdalene.